Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north-west of the country. On Tuesday, the global health agency said a total of nine suspected cases were reported over the last five days in the Kagera region, including eight deaths.

DAR ES SALAAM, - Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization said at least eight people in the northwest were believed to have died from it.

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected 9 people, killing 8 of them,” the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, weeks after an outbreak of the disease was declared over in neighbouring Rwanda.

The Tanzanian government has denied reports by the World Health Organsation (WHO) of a suspected new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwestern

With the fatality rate of 8% it is the same virus family as Ebola. The main carrier is from fruit bats which spreads to humans then through the contact of bodily fluids of infected individuals, it spreads to others.